🌗 More Than Words – Episode 34: Angels and Demons 🌗
From haunted halls to cold medieval service stations, episode 34 is what happens when English history quietly loses the plot.
Featuring:
🏚️ Clifton Hall: ghosts, stains, and a man who repossessed himself
⚰️ Wilford gazebo: scenic views, optional corpses
🍖 Captain Deane: butcher → cannibal → Russian navy → retiree
📬 Gamston: cc’d into a 12th-century papal email chain
📏 Fosse Way: Roman road, still aggressively straight
🔥 Bingham: surgeon arsonist, then 30 years in a shed
🧙 Bottesford: witchcraft, sorcery, and England’s bleakest bake-off
🎭 Laurel & Hardy: Christmas in a Vale pub, obviously
🐝 Grantham: Newton, Thatcher, and a pub that can sting you
🥶 Cold Harbour: medieval Travelodge, but worse
It’s travel with ghosts, cannibals, witch trials, economic policy, and a final stop that legally counts as shelter. Equal parts historic, unhinged, and mildly frostbitten.

🦇 More Than Words – Stage 33: The Goat and The Bat 🐐
From antique museums that open less often than Halley’s Comet to a village that inspired Batman by pretending to be mad — welcome to the Midlands, where the history is deep, the yew trees are older than most religions, and Derby casually invented the factory and the jet engine like it was nothing.
Featuring:
🕰️ Beamhurst Museum: open less days than a Leap Year February
☔️Samuel Johnson and the world’s most intense apology
🌲 A 1,400‑year‑old yew with added Robin Hood
💃 Mr Darcy’s brooding corridor, and aristocrats quietly combusting over the children’s mirror ball
👻 A ghost that acts live a livestock alarm clock
🛠️ Derby: essentially showing off
🦆 A canal jacuzzi for ducks
🦇 Gotham: the original one — no skyscrapers, no Bat‑Signal, just medieval villagers gaslighting a king
It’s travel with antique hoards, biscuit‑scented market squares, stately homes having identity crises, canals that burble ominously, and a finale in the village that accidentally birthed Gotham City. Equal parts historic, heroic, and mildly unhinged.

🛶 More Than Words – Episode 32: Staff and Nonsense 🛶
From Cheshire hamlets with population‑of‑a‑pub‑quiz energy to canals that hold 200‑year grudges, Episode 32 is where the walk leaves leafy respectability behind and dives head‑first into industrial heritage, cosmic eavesdropping, escaped Tudor bears, and Stoke‑on‑Trent’s six‑town identity crisis. It’s England at its most gloriously peculiar.
Featuring: 


✈️ Manchester Airport Mile: fitness, but with the ambience of a long‑haul layover and the glamour of a short‑stay car park
👑 King of Tonga at Yeoman Hey: the royal visit Greater Manchester didn’t expect and still can’t explain
📡 A 25‑metre radio telescope casually parked in a field like it wandered off from Jodrell Bank
🪵 Beating the Bounds: medieval admin that involved walking in circles and hitting things with sticks


🚪 The Wardle Canal: Britain’s shortest canal, built purely out of spite and paperwork


💦 A waterway breach that left narrowboats looking like confused herons


🔥 Nantwich’s Great Fire: 150 buildings lost, four bears escaped, Tudor chaos achieved
🏡 Shavington: where every field is either a housing estate or a planning application in waiting


🏭 Stoke‑on‑Trent: six towns in a trench coat



It’s travel with cosmic telescopes, petty waterways, escaped bears, industrial swagger, and a city that built the world’s tableware and now sells the nostalgia back to you with pride.